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Cam
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1. "Yay, a Black person gets to lead a pseudo lame-duck Congress"
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Wed Nov-30-22 02:26 PM by Cam

  

          

Jeffries (whom I voted for, while living in his district) of the less than 10 legislative bills he's sponsored, none were related to Blackness. For the nearly 100 bills he's co-sponsored that have become law during, what will be, his decade's long career in Congress, his record's not remarkable related to Blackness.

Bills that were unique to Blackness (among the dozens of others unique to specific ethnic/orientation/heritage/historic groups that he's also helped pass) almost all had to do with Gold Star recognitions, the renaming of post offices and efforts towards commemorative coins. Aside from an Act for the National Parks Service to institute a network for educational guides related to civil rights era, there's the passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act. I won't argue about it being largely another symbolic gesture, but it was done weeks after co-sponsoring a passed bill to financially support Public Safety Officers specifically.

My point is this is like celebrating Lovie Smith getting the job to coach the Texans after they fired David Culley. They're planning to use him as a toll to be the Heavy--versus AOC n'em--for more Congressional inaction and to promote centrist polices no-one really wants.

  

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Hakeem. [View all] , FLUIDJ, Wed Nov-30-22 11:42 AM
 
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The power and impact of “The first” is largely underrated these days...
Nov 30th 2022
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first shouldn't be a big a deal in 2022.
Nov 30th 2022
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      it shouldn't....but it is. And it's not just good for history...
Dec 01st 2022
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Let me axe you this, which congressperson record related to Blackness...
Nov 30th 2022
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Not many, but I still support.
Dec 01st 2022
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      This is the only politician whose righteousness I celebrate.
Dec 01st 2022
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      milestones are not "empty symbolism"..... the minute we (Black folks)
Dec 01st 2022
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           What exactly is the milestone though?
Dec 01st 2022
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He wasted a lot of time and access
Dec 01st 2022
11
I selfishly hope and wonder
Dec 01st 2022
13
he just as a corporate centrist as Pelosi
Nov 30th 2022
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Hakeem.
Nov 30th 2022
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^^^THIS
Dec 01st 2022
7
This nation is currently built to fail, this won't change ANYTHING.
Dec 01st 2022
8
*rolls eyes*
Dec 01st 2022
9
Damn
Dec 01st 2022
10
      let me rephrase
Dec 01st 2022
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           basically...
Dec 01st 2022
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           Ok
Dec 01st 2022
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           Huh?
Dec 01st 2022
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           Ideological Purity is the GOP's Bread and Butter
Dec 01st 2022
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Nah we need leadership
Dec 01st 2022
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